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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Gwendolyn Mitchell
Gwendolyn Mitchell
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| Other authors / contributors: | Mitchell, Gwendolyn A. (Gwendolyn Ann), 1955- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 December 18.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2004 April 1.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Editor Gwendolyn Ann Mitchell was born December 27, 1955 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She attended Lemington Elementary School, Westinghouse High School, and graduated from Allendale High School in 1973. Mitchell earned her B.A. degree in political science from Pennsylvania State University in 1988 and her M.F.A. degree in English poetry in 1991. After working as a lecturer at Penn State from 1989 to 1993, Mitchell became a staff assistant to Pennsylvania Senator Harris Wofford in 1994, also working for Youth Enrichment Services. In 1997, she was hired as editor of Haki Madhubuti's Third World Press, where she managed one of the leading independent African American publishers in the nation. Her work of poetry, House of Women, was published in 2002. Mitchell was the author of Veins and Rivers and Ain't I Black, and co-edited two anthologies of creative writing. Mitchell's House of Women was published in 2002.
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